Elizabeth May on Separation of Church and State SCS President asked Elizabeth May to clarify her remarks to an interfaith conference on March 25 and their implications regarding separation of Church and State and for an indication of her thoughts regarding the status of atheist rights in Canada. Le président du SCS demanda Elizabeth May…
Open Secularism–Required for Democracy A true democracy, one that treats all of its citizens as equals and respects fundamental individual freedoms such as freedom of conscience and religion, can not exist when there is a top-down imposition of any ideology. The extreme Christianity of Adolf Hitler certainly did not foster democracy and neither did the…
Office of Religious Freedom In early December, having read the text of a speech made by External Affairs Minister, John Baird, at the launch of the Office of Religious Freedom, I wrote him a letter asking for clarification of specific parts of his speech in regards to non-believers. A week or so ago I emailed…
Dear Member of Parliament: We are Secular Connexion Séculaire (SCS), a new nation-wide group connecting secular Canadians and representing Humanist rights in Canada. Do you know that 23% of Canadians can’t sing O Canada in either official language without being hypocrites? Do you also know that the charitable status definitions in the income tax act…
So… You’re a Humanist! What’s that? from a talk by Barrie Webster, Victoria Secular Humanist Association, Sunday, September 11, 2011 (photo left above) “Humanists take a positive approach to life, one not based on fear or guilt, and they see no need for a supernatural authority figure in their lives… For Humanists the reference point…
SCS President Addresses World Religions Conference They posed the question: Who is God? Nature and Characteristics Here is our president’s answer. God is a Metaphor In the absence of any empirical evidence for the existence of gods, we non-believers do not think of them or any supernatural beings as real entities, but rather as products…
SCS President Addresses World Religions Conference They posed the question: Who is God? Nature and Characteristics Here is an abstract our president’s answer. God is a Metaphor In the absence of any empirical evidence, we non-believers do not think about gods or any supernatural beings as real entities, but rather the product of mankind’s psychology…
PRESS RELEASE Elmira, Ontario – 31 May, 2011 Re: The Creation of a New National Humanist Advocacy Group – Secular Connexion Séculaire (SCS) SCS is a new information network, a new national advocate, a new international voice for Canadian Humanists SCS will be of particular interest to the approximately 8 million non-theistic Canadians Humanism is…
What is Humanism? Who are Humanists? Humanism, sometimes called Secular Humanism or Rational Humanism is a philosophy and lifestance for non-believers. Its roots, in written form, go back to Thales (625-543 BCE) who said that we could learn for ourselves through observation and Epicurus (Epikouros 341-270 BCE) who set out forty principles for human behaviour…
May 30, 2011 No Charitable Status for SCS – too restrictive! The SCS executive has decided that SCS will not seek charitable status in the foreseeable future. Charitable status, governed and monitored under the income tax act by the Charities Directorate, would restrict our advocacy activities too much. Charitable status would restrict our freedom to…